What you don't understand is where everything's leading   When all of the signs you see still point to overload   As you reach out your hand, a shattered picture's receding   Like tail-lights along that lonesome stretch of broken road      'Cause you've been to the past and it's just a reminder   A recollection of faces that will never come to call   When you've cut through the mask   When you've been through the grinder   Sometimes you forget that you had ever been there at all      Up here in room 429   yeah the world ain't so unkind   I want to take you to that empty room tonight      In the shadow of doubt, in the crush of an instant   Standing in the rain outside my door hand on your knife   When you reach a brick wall, there is still a decision   Always thought if I had to lose I'd surely choose my life      Up here in room 429   yeah the world ain't so unkind   I want to take that empty room tonight   We'll tell the world outside the door   That we aint never coming back no more   I want to stay in here til we turn off the night   Til we turn off the night      City breathes so softly, everything is sleeping   I am at the window silently watching   I can see you standing alone against the winter   I can hear hear you asking but the streets they are not giving   Don't look to the ocean, restless in its dreaming   Dont look to the heavens for they will tell you nothing   If living is for learning then dying is forgetting   Once we have forgotten the we can go on living      In a lifetime of hope, in a second of kindness   There is never a doubt that we are born and die alone   From within or without there's no way they can find us   When they knock at the door the lights are on but we ain't home